I am very excited to share that today Zmanda has combined forces
with Carbonite - the best known brand in cloud backup.
I want to take this opportunity to introduce you to Carbonite and
tell you what this announcement means to the extended Zmanda
family, including our employees, customers, resellers and
partners.

First, we become “Zmanda - A Carbonite Company” instead of
“Zmanda, Inc.” and I will continue to lead the Zmanda business
operations. Carbonite will continue to focus on backing up
desktops, laptops, file servers, and mobile devices. Zmanda will
continue to focus on backup of servers and databases. Carbonite’s …

As MySQL continues to grow (as a technology and as an ecosystem)
the need and importance of creating and deploying robust MySQL
backup solutions grows as well. In many circles Zmanda is known
as “The MySQL Backup Company”. While we provide backup of a
wide variety of environments, we gladly take
the label of backing up the most popular open source database in
the world, especially as we kick off our presence at the 2012 MySQL Conference.

Here are some of the updates to our MySQL backup technologies
that we are …

We are adding support for Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in Zmanda
Cloud Backup (ZCB). This is the fifth worldwide location
supported by ZCB.

This support provides faster uploads for ZCB users in Japan.
Throughput will be significantly higher because of less hops
along the way and very high bandwidth connections typically available
in Japan. Overall processing will be faster because of lower
latency (expected to be single digit millisecond latency for most
end users in Japan).

Setting up of a good backup and recovery strategy is crucial for
any serious MySQL implementation. This strategy can vary from
site to site based on various factors including size of the
database, rate of change, security needs, retention and other
compliance policy etc. In general, it is also required from MySQL
DBAs to have least possible impact on usability and performance
of the database at the time of backup - i.e MySQL and its
dependent applications should remain hot during backup.

Join MySQL backup experts from Zmanda for two webinars dedicated
to hot backup of MySQL:

MySQL Backup Essentials: In this webinar, we
will go over best practices for …

An increasing number of large MySQL applications, e.g. social
networking and SaaS back-ends, use a distributed MySQL
architecture. MySQL data is distributed logically or
heuristically on multiple, and in some cases thousands of, real
or virtual servers. Backing up such large and dynamic
environments presents its own complexities.

In this blog, we will use the cluster terminology - but
we do not imply that NDB Cluster storage engine is being used for
MySQL. Most implementations use InnoDB for data and MyISAM for
dictionary. Typical architecture for such applications uses
Database Sharding - i.e. shared-nothing partitioning of
data across similarly configured nodes. …

If you are running your MySQL databases on the Amazon EC2 compute
cloud, Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL can
perform fast full backups of these databases by using Elastic
Block Store (EBS) Snapshots. ZRM takes only a momentary read lock
on the MySQL database during the creation of the snapshot, in
order to ensure consistency of the backed up database archive.
MySQL Backups using Amazon EBS snapshots are differential
backups, meaning that only the blocks that have changed since
your last full backup (via EBS snapshot) will be saved. For
example, if you have a database with 100 GBs of data, but only 5
GBs of data …

We recently added support for Windows 7 to both Zmanda Cloud
Backup and Amanda Enterprise. Zmanda
Cloud Backup stores its backup archives on the Amazon S3
Storage Cloud. Amanda Enterprise has the option to do so. Users can backup both the Windows
file systems and system state, as well as various Microsoft
applications, Oracle and MySQL databases. Now we support all
Windows versions supported by Microsoft, including Windows 7.

Last week we had a lively panel discussion moderated by Dave
Nielsen, founder of CloudCamp, with leading experts in cloud
computing on the panel: Chander Kant (CEO, Zmanda) &
Michael Crandell (CEO, RightScale). Chander and Michael shared
their insights into how their customers are using cloud computing
and achieving new levels of reliability and recoverability.
Here is a video archive of the panel.

This panel discusses how you can migrate your apps and data to
the cloud in a way that’s affordable and reliable and how …

In my previous blog on Cloud Backup, I wrote about the
solutions we offer to backup to the Storage Cloud (e.g. Amazon
S3). In this blog I will talk about backup of cloud, i.e. backup
of your applications running on a Compute Cloud (e.g. Amazon
EC2).

Let’s say you are migrating some on-premises applications (e.g. a
customer facing enterprise app), which are currently being backed
up to a tape library, to the cloud (fig 1).

Clouds don’t have a notion of a local tape library. So, your
current backup solution will likely not work after this
migration.

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